Woodland PD Strengthens Force

by Thadd White - August 11th, 2006 - Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald

WOODLAND - The town of Woodland is providing more service for its citizens and, at the same time, relieving some of the pressure of Police Chief Don Ryan.

Thursday afternoon, Woodland Mayor Jay Jenkins and the town board swore in Officer Kevin Byrd, the first of four lawmen who will be joining the town’s police force.

“Every municipality around us has fulltime and part-time officers,” Jenkins said. “We were one of few that didn’t.”

It is encouraging that government is focusing on the primary duty of government, to allow people to live their own lives by protecting them from others. Let us hope that this is the focus and this is not a tax collecting effort to issue traffic tickets for revenue purposes.

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